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PARAPARESIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paraparesis mean? 

PARAPARESIS (noun)
  The noun PARAPARESIS has 1 sense:

1. a slight paralysis or weakness of both legsplay

  Familiarity information: PARAPARESIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARAPARESIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A slight paralysis or weakness of both legs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("paraparesis" is a kind of...):

paresis (a slight or partial paralysis)


 Context examples 


Human T-lymphotropic virus-1 (HTLV-1) is associated with adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy/tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP).

(HTLV-1, NCI Thesaurus)



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